Bug#966598: RM: sgabios -- RoQA; swallowed by the only user (qemu)

2020-08-06 Thread Sean Whitton
control: tag -1 + moreinfo Hello, On Fri 31 Jul 2020 at 11:34AM +03, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Package: ftp.debian.org > Severity: normal > > Package sgabios provides a variant of x86 BIOS/firmware. It was > only used by qemu system emulation in Debian. The upstream development > stopped many

Bug#966598: RM: sgabios -- RoQA; swallowed by the only user (qemu)

2020-08-04 Thread Daniel Beyer
As the maintainer of sgabios, I support the proposal to remove sgabios for unstable. As mjt stated, it is not really useful on its own and I think this is the right action to take. Actually I'm very happy with sgabios.bin is now been provided by qemu-system-data. Thanks mjt, for your work on

Bug#966598: RM: sgabios -- RoQA; swallowed by the only user (qemu)

2020-07-31 Thread Michael Tokarev
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Package sgabios provides a variant of x86 BIOS/firmware. It was only used by qemu system emulation in Debian. The upstream development stopped many years ago, and now it is maintained within the only its user, qemu, and is built from qemu sources too